Tommy Turrentine

Thomas Walter Turrentine, Jr. [ tʌɹn̩ti ː n] ( born April 22, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, † 15 May 1997) was a modern jazz and hard bop trumpeter in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

From 1946 to 1956 he played in the combos of Benny Carter (1946 ), Earl Bostic ( 1952-1955 ) and Charles Mingus (1956). He also worked at this time in the big bands of Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie and Count Basie. From 1959 to 1960 he was busy with his younger brother, tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine with Max Roach. In the early 1960s he made ​​recordings as a bandleader ( " Tommy Turrentine ," " Tommy Turrentine Plus Max Roach " ) and played on records by Horace Parlan, Jackie McLean, Sonny Clark, Lou Donaldson, Dexter Gordon and his brother Stanley. Then he withdrew from the jazz scene.

Lexical entries

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6
  • Jazz trumpeter
  • American musician
  • Born in 1928
  • Died in 1997
  • Man
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